ffrog
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TGCT Name: Dave Richards
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Post by ffrog on Feb 18, 2019 9:25:55 GMT -5
Halfway through making a hole, with a fairway with a bunker seperating two main landing areas. Undecided about where to put the green- have a couple of options i think would work well.
Considering making two greens, with two pins on each. Don’t think i’ve played a course that does this - is there some obvious reason it wouldn’t work?
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Post by scampi00 on Feb 18, 2019 9:28:32 GMT -5
I have a local course nearby that plays to two greens and I flirted with doing it on an earlier course. No reason it doesnt work, just uncommon.
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Post by jwfickett on Feb 18, 2019 9:57:35 GMT -5
Halfway through making a hole, with a fairway with a bunker seperating two main landing areas. Undecided about where to put the green- have a couple of options i think would work well. Considering making two greens, with two pins on each. Don’t think i’ve played a course that does this - is there some obvious reason it wouldn’t work? Certainly pretty uncommon in the real world due to maintenance logistics and costs, but not unheard of. Pine Valley has two holes with two greens. In Japan, many of the courses have "summer greens" that are one type of grass and "winter greens" that are overseeded with non-dormant grass. On this game, my original Old Reynolda Club's third hole had two greens, and it worked fine. Two pins on each. Definitely a unique feature there's no reason you shouldn't try if you think you can make it work.
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Post by mattf27 on Feb 18, 2019 10:09:10 GMT -5
Halfway through making a hole, with a fairway with a bunker seperating two main landing areas. Undecided about where to put the green- have a couple of options i think would work well. Considering making two greens, with two pins on each. Don’t think i’ve played a course that does this - is there some obvious reason it wouldn’t work? It's uncommon, but not unheard of. Plus you can do it in-game without any issues. I say go for it!
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Post by ddixjr509 on Feb 18, 2019 11:07:23 GMT -5
World Woods- Pine Barrens (Tom Fazio) down here in central Florida has two holes that each have 2 greens. Each green makes the hole play completely different (one green plays 50y shorter but 30' elevated with bunkers short, the other is longer, with trees protecting the right side)- to the point that during the round you're already thinking about which green you're playing that day.
Thanks for the reminder, I'll tuck this one away for a future course.
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Post by rjwils30 on Feb 18, 2019 11:53:32 GMT -5
Pacific dunes 9th hole has an upper And lower green which create distinctly different playing characteristics.
I’m thinking of doing one on my current course.
It’s a fun way to add a bit of variety.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 12:16:04 GMT -5
I support this idea. Go for it!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2019 12:21:53 GMT -5
One of the more extreme double greens. Almost more of a 'Double Hole' at the former Kames Country Club. Pin on 12-A requires a layup to avoid running into the burn and a 2nd to a mounded, shallow green. 12-B is a full uphill drive to the 'hard hat zone' of the 13th. Then a 2nd shot to a thin green that could be plus or minus 30 yards depending on pin placement.
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ffrog
Amateur Golfer
Posts: 247
TGCT Name: Dave Richards
Tour: Challenge Circuit
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Post by ffrog on Feb 18, 2019 15:50:47 GMT -5
Thanks for the replies everyone. Of course, now i’ve done a bit more work on this hole I don’t think it quite works in this case. But now I’ve had the idea, i’ll see if I can get it working somewhere else...
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Post by linkslover on Feb 19, 2019 7:35:17 GMT -5
The 15th at my Angus Bay International has two greens. The left one has two of the pins and is much harder to putt on while the other two pins on the right green is much easier to putt but has out of bounds to the right only a few feet off the green. Which green you are playing to determines the which side of the fairway you need to hit your tee shot - though again the out of bounds is very close to the fairway also.
I've played two courses in real life which has two greens on one hole. Congleton has three, though this is a nine hole course so it is a way to make the hole play different second time round. The other is the 7th at Prestatyn and plays totally different depending which green. A short par 5, the left green sees you playing blind over lots of 'mini dunes', the other green plays some way right and is a flat approach to a green border by a ditch. When I dad and I played there in a social round, we played to this right green only to find when we got there there was no flag and there was another green. We agreed to take the very unusual step of returning to play our previous shots without penalty (so essentially a mulligan) simply because we didn't know about the two green set up.
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Post by baileinneraora on Feb 19, 2019 11:38:57 GMT -5
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Post by linkslover on Feb 19, 2019 12:26:12 GMT -5
Here's the 15th at Angus Bay International. One green is left of the tree in the distance, one to the right. As I wrote above, the one on the left is the much trickier green but the one on the right has the out of bounds right next to it.
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Post by gforce41 on Feb 19, 2019 12:32:02 GMT -5
A Massachusetts public Donald Ross course, Sandy Burr, has a double green on 12. On the left is the old, original smaller green. It is rarely in use. The new modern much larger green is on the right and makes the hole play straight away...making life easier on the public golfer..the old green would be a just a touch of a turn left where you would have to get your tee shot out to the right for a good angle in.
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Post by XJ_Jagman on Feb 19, 2019 13:10:26 GMT -5
17th on Valley Shrew; I did this to lengthen the hole between pin sets with elevation between the two greens. I like the look.
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Post by paulus on Feb 19, 2019 13:26:08 GMT -5
When is this beauty getting released? I'm already looking forward to making my grandma's reaction video...
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